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John Philip Rode Schaefer
John P. R. Schaefer is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social and Behavioral Sciences at Miami University, Middletown, Ohio, USA. Primarily familiar with roots and routes of enslavement between West Africa and North Africa, he is currently completing a book titled tentatively The Black Sahara: Gnawa Identity and Spiritual Work in Morocco, which traces a musical path from healing ritual to staged performance to marketised commodity.